15 rapid fire one line junk posts, many to dead threads, with Signature loaded = posting for count.Originally Posted by Andrew26
Getting e-mail alerts re. each of your crap pisses us off.
Stop wasting our time.
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15 rapid fire one line junk posts, many to dead threads, with Signature loaded = posting for count.
Getting e-mail alerts re. each of your crap pisses us off.
Stop wasting our time.
but why google did this, its really bad because my pr dropped even alexaa too
Last edited by shivam; 02-15-2012 at 04:46 AM.
But has your traffic changed?
The way it is done, the .com domain should keep all the PageRank. If your looking at a localised domain then you probably won't see any PR. No harm.
Alexa will split its stats between all the localised domains as people travel to their local ones. So your alexa rank will be split and hit. Again, that should not effect your traffic.
I'm still getting redirected. What country are you in?
Has anyone yet looked at Why does my blog redirect to a country-specific URL??
I.e., country specific censorship.Q: Why is this happening?
A: Migrating to localized domains will allow us to continue promoting free expression and responsible publishing while providing greater flexibility in complying with valid removal requests pursuant to local law. By utilizing ccTLDs, content removals can be managed on a per country basis, which will limit their impact to the smallest number of readers. Content removed due to a specific country’s law will only be removed from the relevant ccTLD.
Nope; no evil here.
I have seen some blogs redirected to their own country TLD but it didn't happen with my own accounts. So I assume that this new change is just for a part of their users. Selected countries might see the change while me and the rest won't. This is not a big deal for now because it hasn't been decided of yet so its not permanent.
Dimples
A reading of Google's own statement, cited in the post directly above yours, should put to rest any questions re. the permanency of this change. It is not temporary.
Q: Where will I see this change?
A: We routinely launch limited updates, so in the coming months you will see ccTLDs in additional countries.
The canonical should help keep all that page rank in one spot. I'm guessing people aren't seeing it in their toolbar if they have been countrified, thus panicking.
People get sent to ccTLDs so will share the blog via them. What if a blog is shut down for a particular ccTLD? Any links to that ccTLD version will probably fail even if the source of the link and the link follower are not in the restricted country. Or will they be clever and still redirect but not allow direct access?
Wouldn't providing the ncr option defeat the whole purpose of what they are trying to do? Or will they block the feature if the blog is banned and the viewer is from the banned country?
My reading is that said censorship will be effected so as to only affect the access to a resource to users in a specified country. However, unless they replicate a given blogger account's content across each and every ccTLD, it's not clear to me how they're going to isolate such blockage.
As for the /ncr switch, that only works on Google's SE. On Blogger one needs to use the l= parameter, which only specifies desired language, independent of the ccTLD, which Blogger determines via the user's IP Address.
The isolation is really based on the region/IP redirects. Whatever ccTLD you access the blog from should cause you to redirect to your local ccTLD. If that blog is blocked in that country then you are denied access.
Implementation wise they could have just stuck to the .com domain and block people by IPregion/blog combination. Maybe the use of ccTLDs is there to make the censoring countries feel better about it: All the people in your country will get redirected to a domain in your country. We will use that to switch off whatever blogs you don't like people in your country seeing.
from your reference...
Implying the country restriction can be easily bypassed.For example: http://[blogname].blogspot.com/ncr – always goes to the U.S. English blog.
What would be nice is if someone could highlight a blog that has been censored in a country. Then we can really play.
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